many round-trip flights Bali Lewotobi canceled after Mount Laki-laki volcano It started spewing ash into the sky up to 9 kilometers.

Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia More than a dozen flights scheduled to arrive or depart Denpasar Airport on Tuesday and Wednesday were canceled, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. volcanic eruption nearby the Popular tourist destination in Indonesia.

At least 10 people died and many others were injured last week in a volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Flores, about 500 km east of Bali.

Since last week, the volcano has spewed smoldering rocks, lava and thumb-sized chunks of hot gravel and ash from the crater, affecting more than 10,000 people in 10 villages. About 6,000 villagers were moved to makeshift emergency shelters after the explosion destroyed seven schools, nearly two dozen homes and a monastery on the mostly Catholic island.

Jetstar said all flights to and from Denpasar Airport were canceled until at least 14:00 (local time) on Wednesday. “Affected customers have been notified directly and offered a range of options,” the airline said in a statement. he said.

Options include “rebooking their trip for free or canceling their reservation and receiving a voucher for the person they didn’t travel with.”

The airline said it plans to operate at least two additional return services between Australia and Bali on Wednesday to clear the airport’s stranded passenger load.

Virgin Airlines said it canceled at least 10 flights into and out of Indonesia on Wednesday due to “adverse weather conditions.”

“The safety of our guests and crew is our top priority. Adverse weather conditions occurred in Indonesia due to volcano Virgin Australia “All flights in and out of Denpasar are canceled today.”

Two Qantas return flights scheduled from Australia to Denpasar have so far been postponed. It is reported that the airline will resume operations from Sydney International Airport at around 16.30 (local time) on Wednesday.

9News reports Garuda Indonesia flights delayed in both directions

People shared their difficulties and complaints about not being able to receive food and shelter support on social media.

Mark Wilson, who was in Bali to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary, said the plane remained on the tarmac for about an hour on Tuesday before passengers were told to disembark.

“I’d like to think we’ll get there… But I have a bad feeling,” said the holidaymaker from Gippsland. Sydney Morning Herald.

The 1,584-meter volcano on the remote island of Flores has spewed dozens of columns of ash dozens of times since last Thursday, said Hadi Wijaya, head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.

Officials visiting the destroyed areas found craters up to 13 meters wide and 5 meters deep in many places, including a collapsed school, where rocks had fallen during the explosions.

The country’s volcano monitoring agency raised the alert for Lewotobi Laki Laki to its highest level last week, more than doubling the exclusion zone to a 7-kilometer radius and banning all activity in the area.

Lewotobi Laki Laki is one of a pair of stratovolcanoes in East Nusa Tenggara province, known locally as the husband-wife mountains. “Laki laki” means man while his wife is Lewotobi Perempuan or woman.

Lewotobi Laki Laki is one of 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, an archipelago with a population of 280 million. The country is prone to earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity because it lies along the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean.